You could see this coming. The market has been gearing up to take a ‘pop’ at Microsoft and there are some very clever people with the cash to go and pull something together.
I suppose it was inevitable that Zimbra was going to be acquired away from Yahoo, it was in the wrong place to go after the ‘business’ space. I actually really like Zimbra and when it comes down to it – its a viable alternative to exchange. Ok, so people may disagree but from my own experiences of selling plenty of hosted exchange no-one ever really said – “hey I would like to buy some exchange’. What they actually wanted was to get the system to drive the functionality in that desktop client we all know and ‘maybe’ love – Outlook. That’s what is great about Zimbra – Outlook works exactly the same so why do we care what sits behind it.
